Fabio Capello today urged his England side to concentrate on what they must do against Croatia tomorrow - and not dwell on what happened the last time Slaven Bilic's team came to Wembley.

Victory will guarantee Capello's side their berth at next summer's World Cup with two games to spare, a startling sea-change after the car-crash of Steve McClaren's Euro 2008 campaign.

The 3-2 home defeat by Croatia at Wembley in November 2007 was the defining moment of McClaren's doomed reign but rather than talking of wiping the slate clean, Capello insisted he was only interested in the here and now.

Capello, likely to bring Aaron Lennon in for Shaun Wright-Phillips in the only change from the team that started against Slovenia on Saturday, said: "No, I've not seen the video of the last Wembley game against them, absolutely not.

"I studied the games we played at Wembley against Slovenia and the Croatia games against Belarus because I always study the last games that have been played, not what happened in the past.

"That is history. I am preparing the next game, not the old games.

"It is why I do not speak about the game they played two years ago. I can't understand why I should. I have to motivate the players for tomorrow, not what happened two years ago.

"And I do not believe it is at the back of the players' minds. I think they forgot about this game the night they won 4-1 in Croatia."

Capello added: "We have three finals to play. Tomorrow is the first of them.

"After that we play Ukraine and have the last game at home against Belarus. We have to win one of these three games to qualify, or draw some of them. The most important thing is to arrive first in the group and get to South Africa."